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Promoting healthy behaviour : a practical guide / Dominic Upton and Katie Thirlaway.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Harlow, England : Pearson 2014Edition: Second editionDescription: 344 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415733861 (hbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 613 23
LOC classification:
  • RA427.8
Summary: There is ever growing recognition by governments and healthcare professionals of the need to respond to the challenges of preventable diseases, especially so-called 'lifestyle diseases', and of the influence that social class, gender, ethnicity, as well as individual differences play in health. This text explores the fundamental importance of psychology in the development of these lifestyle diseases, and how an understanding of psychological models is essential for the healthcare practitioner to predict behaviours and develop evidence-based interventions.
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Previous edition: London: Pearson Education, 2010.

Previous edition: 2010.

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references and index.

There is ever growing recognition by governments and healthcare professionals of the need to respond to the challenges of preventable diseases, especially so-called 'lifestyle diseases', and of the influence that social class, gender, ethnicity, as well as individual differences play in health. This text explores the fundamental importance of psychology in the development of these lifestyle diseases, and how an understanding of psychological models is essential for the healthcare practitioner to predict behaviours and develop evidence-based interventions.

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